New Song of Solomon Based Novella in Verse Ready for Publication

MIAMI, FL, Feb 14 (MARKET WIRE) --
House of Zagada(HOZ) announced today the publication of the highly
anticipated novella in verse, Manikato: "only the lover can know God" by
Philip Dickenson Peters. It is Peters' fourth book under the HOZ imprint.
The novella is a contemporary interpretation of the Old Testament's Song
of Solomon-Song of Song restaged in a tropical Caribbean setting.

The name Manikato is derived from the Neo-Taino Arawak Caribbean culture.
It represents the word shouted by the bride and groom and their
celebrating party the moment after consummation of the marriage.

The novella captures the fire in the hearts of two lovers who yearn deeply
and are preparing to make a lifetime commitment as two souls interlocked.
Three narratives define Manikato -- the text, driven by the moving
dialogue between lover and beloved; the footnotes, which introduces
unique words, concepts and images deeply imbedded in West Indian
civilization; and the Caribbean island setting staged as a
geographic-person rather than merely a contextual backdrop. The body of
the novella represents a patient line-by-line, sentence-by-sentence
distillation and retelling of the ancient text, which dates back to the
ninth century BCE.

"I used the Revised Standard Version as my base," Peters said, "together
with a wide range of interviews, access to historical, literary and
contemporary documents and articles were read, to give me a deeper
understanding and perspective of the cultural setting in which the
original poem was written," he concluded.

In the original biblical allegory, a mysterious lover -- perhaps that of
awe struck Solomon himself -- is wooed by a Shulamite woman from the
village of Shulem. In Peter' Manikato novella, the main characters --
lover and beloved become anyone from anywhere who embraces what the author
calls "the Manikato path."

MANIKATO: "Only the Lover can Know God" will be available for sale on
Tuesday, February 17th in eBook format from the website
www.manikatoboo.com. Chapter One and the introductory section of the book
are now immediately available as Free downloads. The book will be
subsequently sold through digital distributors, and as hardcover and
paperbacks in coming months.

About the Author

Philip Dickenson Peters is author, researcher, and developer of new
business development and executive transformation models. His thinking
intersects with creativity, economics and spiritual philosophy. He has
added fifteen new words an terms to the contemporary lexicon. He is the
author of the trilogy Caribbean Zen, Caribbean Oracles and Caribbean WOW
2.0. He is writer and editor of nine global research reports, two White
Papers -- the Tig Protocol and DigitalGNP -- and edits his company's
nearshorejournal.com blog. Philip is CEO of Zagada Markets, found on the
web at www.zagada.com.

About HOZ

House of Zagada (HOZ) is the creative publishing imprint of Zagada Markets
under which executives publish their creative projects.

Zagada is a business development analytics firm. The company provides
research, indexes, rating and tailor-made advisory services on countries,
cities and service suppliers to corporations. The company principally
serves the corporate buy-side and is totally focused on delivering
sourcing analytics on the service globalization outsourcing sector. In
addition to its ZAWA indices the company's ZaXURS CURS rating engine is
the markets' first quantitative model -- driven rating solution for
contact centers Business Process Outsourcing and IT Outsourcing firms.
Please visit Zagada on the web at www.zagada.com and its blog at
www.nearshorejournal.com.

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